Comments on: Lowering The Google Red Flag – Sidestep The Cash Hungry Bull

By: Nofollow Followon » Blogging the Meme

Nofollow Followon » Blogging the Meme — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:49:43 +0000

[...] read Andy Beal’s Lowering The Google Red Flag article this morning, and it contains what I expected to see soon – skilled internet publishers [...]

By: Flimjo.com

Flimjo.com — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:06:19 +0000

It takes guts to do this, and I, too, admire this. I’m glad that I now know a way of blocking posts containing paid reviews. Being a total blogging ignorant, this post is priceless. I never thought someone could do this. Excellent.

By: Popular Wealth

Popular Wealth — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:40:01 +0000

I’d love another update – I noticed most of the pages you blocked have a blank PR toolbar reading.

You’re still passing on internal pagerank to those pages and I’m really curious to see if a blocked page gathers pagerank in time.

By: Share A Post Beta - Blog Post Syndication -Andy Beard — Data SystemsPlus

Share A Post Beta - Blog Post Syndication -Andy Beard — Data SystemsPlus — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:00:45 +0000

[...] to a huge amount of disbelief I blocked some of my high ranking paid reviews with robots.txt, and hinted that syndication would be a perfect loophole in Google's penalties, no one fully [...]

By: Exclusive: Share A Post Beta - Blog Post Syndication | Data SystemsPlus

Exclusive: Share A Post Beta - Blog Post Syndication | Data SystemsPlus — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:15:20 +0000

[...] to a huge amount of disbelief I blocked some of my high ranking paid reviews with robots.txt, and hinted that syndication would be a perfect loophole in Google's penalties, no one fully [...]

By: Exclusive: Share A Post Beta - Blog Post Syndication | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing

Thu, 22 May 2008 11:26:07 +0000

[...] to a huge amount of disbelief I blocked some of my high ranking paid reviews with robots.txt, and hinted that syndication would be a perfect loophole in Google's penalties, no one fully [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:35:23 +0000

So, how would this prevent Google from seeing what’s on your main page?

I can understand that it will prevent Googlebot from seeing them once they’ve rolled off the main page, but wont those links still be indexed?

By: Protecting or regaining your Google PageRank with meta tags » the Spun Puppy

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:25:43 +0000

[...] next most effective method was spelled out by Andy Beard, and included using a robots.txt file to limit the posts that Google indexes. While this method works perfectly well, there are issues involved, especially for people who [...]

By: Blekinge

Blekinge — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:23:59 +0000

I have to admit that i like your solution, rather then ban googlebot.

SEO friendly links are most often a good thing, making the link more user friendly. People are obsessed with Google and the paid reviews.

I can see only one weak point here. It is similar to viral marketing. How many people will want to pay for a potential negative review or no-follow links?

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:59:29 +0000

Lorna they are apple’s and oranges – they do different things